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Adding Content to your Modules with Pages

Pages store content and educational resources that are part of a course but don’t necessarily belong in an assignment, for example, you will use the Page tool to add text, documents, links to URLs, or even discussion forums.

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Some ideas for how you can use Pages are:
  • Build with the Rich Content Editor (RCE): Add images, files, record or upload multimedia content, and embed external tools like YouTube, Khan Academy and other LTI tools
  • Content Selector for more: Using the content selector from the right-side you can add direct links to other Pages, Assignments, Quizzes, Announcements, Discussions, Modules or other course navigation areas
  • Make sure it's accessible: It has an awesome accessibility checker
More things you can do with Pages are:
  • Easy to duplicate Pages from the selector in Module view
  • Use them for collaboration. Pages can work like collaborative wiki pages that students can edit while allowing the instructor to see and curate the edits
Some ideas for how you can use Pages are:
  • Design with the Rich Content Editor (RCE): Add images, files, record or upload multimedia content, and embed external tools like YouTube, Khan Academy, and other LTI tools
  • Content Selector for more: Using the content selector from the right-side you can add direct links to other Pages, Assignments, Quizzes, Announcements, Discussions, Modules, or other course navigation areas
  • Make sure it's accessible: It has an awesome accessibility checker
More things you can do with Pages are:
  • Easy to duplicate Pages from the selector in Module view
  • Use them for collaboration. Pages can work like collaborative wiki pages that students can edit, while allowing the instructor to see and curate the edits 

Need more information? Check out these Canvas Guides:

Build with the Rich Content Editor

Canvas has a simple, yet powerful, content editor that is used for creating new content.

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The Rich Content Editor is used in features such as: Announcements, Assignments, Discussions, Pages, Quizzes, and Syllabus.

Although clean and streamlined, the Rich Content Editor is sophisticated enough to support embedding video content, math formulas, and other rich media.

Need more information? Check out this Canvas Guide:

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